If a defendant goes on television and does a self-serving interview, do you think he should be required to testify at his trial under oath?

Arnold A. Alfred

Hurleyville

Traffic signals and drivers turning on Route 211 over and over again I have experienced a serious issue with the Route 211 East bound traffic signal turning green, at the turn off for the Walmart plaza, for east bound traffic and west bound Route 211 making the left hand turn continue coming. Not just one car turns left after the east bound light has turned green, but on average four to five cars are turning left causing the potential for a very serious accident to occur at that spot.

There never seems to be either a Town of Wallkill or state trooper on scene when this occurs. I am sure that it is occurring scores of times each day and probably many more times on weekends when people are shopping.

I would suggest that a traffic cam be placed at that location to validate this issue and ticket west bound Route 211 drivers who are turning left at a red light and who are placing east bound drivers in jeopardy of serious injury or worse.

Patrick McLaughlin

Middletown

Hopefully the sports department of the THR will be running out of stock photos of A-Rod pretty soon. How many back page photos and headlines can you possibly run for a player that has yet to take the field this year? Zero hits, zero homeruns, zero rbi's, zero assists, zero walks for 102 games this season. When you add it all together it still totals zero. Seriously, enough is enough and the coverage is now simply annoying. Save one last photo for when MLB bans him for substance abuse and please turn the back page over to some more deserving athlete.

There was no picture of H. Kuroda from his shutout of the Rangers, no picture of Met rookie Wheeler.

High school fall sports are starting all over the Mid Hudson and snuggled into the sports section five pages back is a story about the Delaware Valley 11- year-old baseball team winning a state tournament.

Either of those stories would be much more deserving of back page coverage than yet another picture of a steroid enhanced, non-playing embarrassment to New York sports. Take a quick survey and you'll see that almost no one really cares about A-Rod any longer.